Happy 2026! The best way to start a new year - With a new book!
I am thrilled to announce that my newest book is now available - published on Amazon.
Oxford Literarium: Oxford Writers in Time and Place
This book is a labor of love and research. Filled with authors who lived, taught, wrote, thought, and experienced Oxford in different ways, such as:
C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
Dorothy L. Sayers
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lewis Carroll
Evelyn Waugh
Robert Burton
And More!
I had the immense privilege to live in Oxford for most of March 2025 where I spent everyday in the Bodleian Libraries reading books and viewing manuscripts and letters from these amazing authors. It was a great dream of mine to research in the Bodleian Libraries. I got to live across the street from the Radcliffe Camera (part of the Bodleian) where I walked into the quadrangle every morning with my coffee, stepped inside the library to warm up and treasure hunt the books to read that day.
You will journey with me on my travels as I experience the Bodleian during my research and the places associated or visited by these authors (colleges, pubs, libraries, gardens). I explore how these authors are connected in surprising ways across space and time. In my research, finding those connections in my reading was such a joy. To see how some authors knew each other, some referenced older authors, led a similar youth journey, or were inspired by each other's writings.
It is a bit frightening to share one's writings with the world, but I believe when we are given an ounce of a talent and the passion to put something that promotes good, it is meant to be shared. The power comes through the sharing and the talking with others about it or about some concept explored through it. I hope you will check it out, and if you have any interest in any of these authors you'll pick it up out of curiosity. You might learn something and share in an appreciation of the place Oxford and its many amazing writers.
You can check it out and purchase a copy on AMAZON
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